1 I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.
2 She could recount shamelessly and with pride how she had skinned people out of their eyeteeth and he would applaud.
3 Alas, I have still to recount the most distressing period of my life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 4 As we walked to and fro, all four together, before breakfast, I deemed it right to recount what I had seen.
5 A better course than to attempt to answer that question would be to recount the story of Tientietnikov's boyhood and upbringing.
6 Let us recount what had taken place.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN 7 The animals had now reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice.
8 It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.
9 And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think you have said the thing which is not.
10 The men were whispering speculations and recounting the old rumors.
11 Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.
12 While each passenger was recounting his story, the ship made her way.
13 Below in his hammock, Ahab did not hear of this till grey dawn, when he came to the deck; it was then recounted to him by Flask, not unaccompanied with hinted dark meanings.
14 He again recounted the events of the attack on the island at Glenn's, the death of his associates and the escape of their most formidable enemies.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 15 Duncan, observing that she trembled in a manner which betrayed her inability to stand, gently induced her to be seated, while he recounted those leading incidents which it has been our task to accord.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25